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One Work: Mire Lee’s “Carriers”
Art in America November 7, 2022 Many of Mire Lee’s sculptures, comprising silicone and other synthetic materials, evoke a mix of the primordial and the postindustrial.... Learn More -
7 Must-See Works to Seek Out at the ADAA Art Show, From Remedios Varo’s Surrealist Scenery to Pacita Abad’s Stunning Sun Goddess
Usa ART News November 3, 2022 The Art Show, the annual art fair (and one of the originals), hosted by the Art Dealers Association, threw open... Learn More -
Jennifer Tee “Still Shifting, Mother Field” at Secession, Vienna
Mousse Magazine October 25, 2022 How can we return to—or redefine—humanity’s place in our natural environment and the cosmos? What are the potentials for an... Learn More -
Mire Lee's Tantalizing Installations Are Charged with Death and Desire
Artsy October 14, 2022 Mire Lee creates carnivorous mechanical sculptures that evoke the vulnerability of the human body. Using clay, steel, pumps, hoses, blades,... Learn More
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Alone in a Dirty, Sacred Space
Hyperallergic September 27, 2022 The first time you encounter Mire Lee’s artwork your mind might race toward an unsettling observation that eludes your memory,... Learn More -
8 Standout Artists at the 58th Carnegie International
Artsy September 27, 2022 MIRE LEE Mire Lee’s works can only be regarded as anti-aesthetic. There is horror and gore, but also beauty, as... Learn More -
Mire Lee’s Visceral Bodies
Ocula September 21, 2022 In Conversation with Stephanie Bailey New York, 21 September 2022 Mire Lee's kinetic sculptures are defined by a visceral, body-horror... Learn More -
Painting Against the Tyranny of Flatness
Hyperallergic September 14, 2022 On March 7, 2020, I reviewed the posthumous New York debut exhibition Lee Seung Jio: Nucleus at Tina Kim Gallery... Learn More
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Mire Lee's Deep-Rooted Romanticism
Frieze September 9, 2022 by Mire Lee and Alvin Li in Features, Interview Alvin Li Before working with you, I had no idea how... Learn More -
Post-Industrial Grotesque
ArtAsiaPacific September 9, 2022 Mire Lee is an artist who frequently turns to industrial materials and machinery to mine for waste and unexpected byproducts.... Learn More -
Tina Kim Gallery Presents Mire Lee’s “Carriers”
ArtAsiaPacific September 8, 2022 For her first solo exhibition with Tina Kim Gallery, Mire Lee presents “Carriers,” on view from September 15 to October... Learn More -
Tina Kim's Summer House in Long Island
Maison Marie Claire Korea September 5, 2022 Take a look inside Tina Kim's summer villa in Long Island, New York. In her cottage-style retreat, designed by architect... Learn More
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Strong collectors and writers are the strengths of Korean art
Maeil Business News Korea September 1, 2022 '한국 미술시장은 오래 다져진 데다가 컬렉터(수집가) 기반이 넓어지면서 아시아에서 단연 돋보인다.' 서울에서 처음 열리는 프리즈에 맞춰 한국을 찾은 뉴욕 화상... Learn More -
What’s Showing in Seoul, September 2022
ArtAsiaPacific August 31, 2022 Contemporary art’s global K-boom is circling back to Seoul starting this month. The big K-motion is being stirred by the... Learn More -
Christopher Lew’s Five Favourite Works from Frieze Viewing Room
Frieze August 31, 2022 The Chief Artistic Director of the Horizon Art Foundation (Los Angeles) shares his top works from the Frieze Seoul 2022... Learn More -
Frieze Seoul: Advisory Selections
Frieze August 30, 2022 Frieze's much-anticipated debut in Seoul has arrived, bringing together over 110 of the world's top galleries. Running between 2–5 September... Learn More
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Frieze Debuts in Seoul, With Big-Name Galleries and a Hometown Spectacle
The New York Times August 30, 2022 High-end art fairs have been giving themselves global brand extensions for years, and the latest one, Frieze Seoul, is among... Learn More -
7 Must-See Shows during Frieze Seoul
Artsy August 25, 2022 A new series of Ghada Amer’s darkly explicit female figures will debut at Tina Kim Gallery’s pop-up space at the... Learn More -
The Essential Works of Lee Ufan
Art Asia Pacific August 5, 2022 “Art is poetry, criticism, and the transcendent. There are two different paths that lead to it. One is the embodiment... Learn More -
Ha Chong-Hyun, retrospective
Juliet July 28, 2022 Collateral event of La Biennale di Venezia April 23—August 24, 2022 By Marina Zorz The Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa is... Learn More
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What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now
The New York Times June 16, 2022 What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now Minouk Lim: Fossil of High Moon The marks we leave on the... Learn More -
Stories That Need to Be Told | Minouk Lim
Hyperallergic May 26, 2022 Minouk Lim, a video and multimedia artist, has had museum exhibitions throughout Asia and Europe. A decade ago, the Walker... Learn More -
Legendary Korean Artist Lee Ufan Sets Up a Dazzling New Museum for His Art in Southern France
Art News May 11, 2022 Since the late 19th-century when Impressionists, most notably Vincent van Gogh, flocked there, Arles has long fascinated artists and the... Learn More -
Tina Kim’s New York Townhouse Celebrates the International Artists Who Have Shaped Her
TEFAF May 5, 2022 For Korean-born, New York-based gallerist Tina Kim, art has always been a family pastime and profession. “Traveling often to see... Learn More
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Ha Chong-Hyun
The New York Times April 21, 2022 VENICE — After a delay, this city is once again filled with the art class — the pavilions are full,... Learn More -
Mire Lee
Korea JoongAng Daily April 21, 2022 VENICE, Italy — Two female Korean artists who rebel against conventional thoughts through art, traveled to Italy to showcase their... Learn More -
The 2022 Venice Biennale Finds Hope at the End of the World
Artsy April 21, 2022 Within the exhibition, technology reminds viewers of the intensities of our bodies and the vulnerabilities of our flesh. Mire Lee... Learn More -
Mire Lee | 3 Artists to Watch at the 2022 Venice Biennale
L'OFFICIEL ART April 20, 2022 Mire Lee’s sculptural installations are often unsightly and heavily material, most often reminiscent of intestines or dissected body parts that... Learn More
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Mire Lee | The Milk of Dreams |Tour Cecilia Alemani’s Venice Biennale Exhibition, Coursing with Surrealist Energies and Abounding with Bodies
Artnews April 20, 2022 Mire Lee Remember this name: the Korean artist Mire Lee, who works in Amsterdam, is displaying kinetic sculptures that suggest... Learn More -
Mire Lee | The Best Art in the 2022 Venice Biennale’s Main Show
Artnews April 20, 2022 Mire Lee This is a Biennale where kink proliferates, from a Mariann Simnett installation involving S&M to a Zheng Bo... Learn More -
Abstractions That Record the Scars of Trauma
Hyperallergic Mire Lee | Preview of the 2022 Venice Biennale Part Two: ‘The Milk of Dreams' The more I learn about artists associated with the Dansaekhwa movement that began flourishing in Korea in the late 1960s,... Learn More -
Ha Chong-Hyun
E-flux March 28, 2022 Collateral Event of the 59th Venice Biennale April 23–August 24, 2022 Kukje Art and Culture Foundation is pleased to present... Learn More
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Mire Lee Invited to La Biennale di Venezia 2022
April 23 - November 27, 2022 February 2, 2022 Tina Kim Gallery Congratulates Mire Lee on her inclusion in La Biennale di Venezia 2022. The 59th International Art Exhibition,... Learn More -
Pacita Abad Estate Gets Gallery Representation Ahead of U.S. Retrospective
Artnews January 27, 2022 Ahead of a major U.S. retrospective due to open in 2023, the estate of Pacita Abad , a pioneering Filipina... Learn More -
Advisory Perspective: FOG Design+Art: Artwork Selections
Ocula January 20, 2022 Shifting between the realms of contemporary art and design, FOG Design+Art in San Francisco brings over 40 dealers and galleries... Learn More -
Fog Design + Art Returns in 2022 to the Bay Area
Incollect January 19, 2022 Here at Incollect we have always believed that design and art go hand in hand, that one compliments and enhances... Learn More
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The Unseen Professors Leo Amino (1911-1989), Minoru Niizuma (1930-1998), John Pai (b. 1937)
International Examiner January 7, 2022 “When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.” ― Yukio Mishima Mishima certainly... Learn More -
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now | The Unseen Professors
The New York Times December 17, 2021 As the writer and curator John Yau points out, grouping the sculptors Minoru Niizuma (1930-1998), Leo Amino (1911-1989) and John... Learn More -
The Unseen Professors: Leo Amino, Minoru Niizuma, John Pai
TheGuide.Art December 15, 2021 “The work is the most important thing,” said John Yau, curator of “The Unseen Professors,” a deeply researched group exhibition... Learn More -
This show is a historical event’: celebrating ‘unseen’ Asian American artists
The Guardian December 7, 2021 A groundbreaking new show in New York showcases the work of three under-recognized Asian American sculptors who worked and taught... Learn More
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Mire Lee
Artforum December 3, 2021 THE ARTISTS’ ARTISTS Twenty-three artists reflect on 2021 To take stock of the past year, Artforum asked an international group... Learn More -
Pacita Abad: World Citizen
Ocula November 24, 2021 At the Jameel Arts Centre, located at Dubai's Jaddaf Waterfront, a new solo exhibition has opened featuring works by one... Learn More -
The Man Who Paints Water Drops
DOC NYC | US Premiere November 17, 2021 Tina Kim Gallery is pleased to announce the U.S. premiere of The Man Who Paints Water Drops , a documentary... Learn More -
John Yau Connects Three Asian American Modernists
Ocula November 17, 2021 At Tina Kim Gallery in New York, curator John Yau brings together sculptures by Leo Amino, Minoru Niizuma, and John... Learn More
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MIRE LEE ON SCULPTING BODY HORROR AND VORE
Art in America November 12, 2021 Mire Lee’s silicone sculptures resemble life forms that defy easy classification. These works, which look a bit like innards, are... Learn More -
Korean art master Park Seo-bo draws line at NFTs
The Korea Herald November 12, 2021 South Korean art master Park Seo-bo confirmed that he would not allow his works to be produced as NFTs, or... Learn More -
Kim Tschang-Yeul: The Stillness of Water
Whitehot Magazine October 31, 2021 Kim Tschang-Yeul: The Stillness of Water Tina Kim Gallery September 19 through October 30, 2021 One of the most singular... Learn More -
Park Seo-bo awarded Geumgwan Order for contribution to Korean art
The Korea Herald October 22, 2021 Korean abstract artist Park Seo-bo was awarded South Korea’s highest cultural honor, the Geumgwan Order of Cultural Merit, in a... Learn More
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HR Giger & Mire Lee
e-flux September 16, 2021 The Schinkel Pavillon brings together the worlds of the late Swiss visionary HR Giger (1940–2014) and the South Korean artist... Learn More -
Vorarephilia: Mire Lee
Mousse Magazine July 20, 2021 ESSAYS Mousse 69 Vorarephilia: Mire Lee by Alvin Li I first encountered Korean artist Mire Lee via an Instagram story—a... Learn More -
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CURA.36 July 20, 2021 Mire Lee’s promethean sculptures and installations instill a creeping transgressive horror. Twisted piles of rubber tubing, pools of silicate, and... Learn More -
A Towering Figure in South Korean Art Plans His Legacy
The New York Times June 16, 2021 SEOUL — In 1951, as the Korean War dragged on, a young artist named Park Jae-Hong headed toward Seoul. The... Learn More
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Best Gallery Exhibitions Summer 2021
Observer June 1, 2021 This summer galleries are opening doors and welcoming in art lovers, we picked out the ones you won't want to... Learn More -
Maia Ruth Lee’s Artworks Pick Up Where Language Falls Short
Hyperallergic May 19, 2021 In The Language of Grief , Lee’s canvases read like a fragmentary novel, building out the story of a year... Learn More -
What Abstraction Can Face Up To
Hyperallergic May 15, 2021 Ha Chong-Hyun has survived the many catastrophes that have befallen Korea during his lifetime, and his work is inextricable from... Learn More -
Minouk Lim: Gwangju Biennale - GB Commission & MaytoDay: Projects by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation
e-flux April 16, 2021 Founded to commemorate the Gwangju Democratization Movement of 1980 and its lasting cultural influence, the Gwangju Biennale has established itself... Learn More
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Long Pushed to the Margins, Pacita Abad’s Art About the Immigrant Experience Gets Global Recognition
ArtNews April 15, 2021 The story of the thousands of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York during the late 19th and... Learn More -
Tania Pérez Córdova: Puzzles and Promises
Art in America April 13, 2021 The materials list for Tania Pérez Córdova’s We Focus on a Woman Facing Sideways (2013/17) reads as follows: “Bronze, Swarovski... Learn More -
Ghada Amer: How Egyptian artist Ghada Amer has weaved an expression of feminism into her paintings
Arts & Culture April 1, 2021 By Nadine Khalil In Ghada Amer’s paintings, threads behave like coloured rivers, abstraction obscures figuration and unknown women proliferate. However,... Learn More -
LOOK CLOSER: Understanding Pacita Abad's European Mask
Tate April 1, 2021 'I have been very fortunate to spend most of my artistic career painting in the far-flung corners of the globe... Learn More
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Maia Ruth Lee’s Artworks Pick Up Where Language Falls Short
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'Dansaekhwa' artist Ha Chong-hyun holds exhibition in New York
The Korea Times March 12, 2021 'Dansaekhwa' artist Ha Chong-hyun, 86, is exhibiting his latest works showcasing his 'relationship with color' at Tina Kim Gallery in... Learn More -
Artists We Should Remember in 2021: Davide Balliano
Luxury Magazine February 25, 2021 2021년 우리가 기억해야 할 아티스트 시대에 대한 이해와 감성의 자극, 시각적 충격과 깊은 사유에 이르기까지, 훌륭한 예술 작품의 감상은 누구에게나... Learn More -
Minouk Lim | 13th Gwangju Biennale April 1–May 9, 2021
e-flux February 15, 2021 The Gwangju Biennale Foundation is proud to announce details of the GB Commission and Pavilion Projects, two international programmes which... Learn More
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Tania Pérez Córdova: Sculptures as Events | In Conversation with Lauren Cornell
Ocula January 13, 2021 Take We Focus on a Woman Facing Sideways (2013–2017), most recently recreated for the artist's solo exhibition at the Museum... Learn More -
An Expansive View of Asian Identity at the Asia Society Triennial
Hyperallergic January 13, 2021 Minouk Lim’s “It’s A Name I Give Myself” (2018) probes the scars of war via a compilation of video excerpts... Learn More -
Kim Tschang-Yeul, 91, Dies; Painted Water Drops Swollen With Meaning
The New York Times January 6, 2021 Hailing from South Korea, he became an international art star with luminous images informed by Eastern philosophy and the trauma... Learn More -
Tania Pérez Córdova: Short Sight Box
Artforum January 5, 2021 “Woman’s head wearing jewellry, preserved as excavated . . .” So begins the description of item No. 122294—a grouping of... Learn More
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A Festival of New Asian Art, Seeking a Direction
The New York Times November 18, 2020 There are, still and all, high points. New Yorkers have had few opportunities before to discover the work of Minouk... Learn More -
At Asia Society’s Inaugural Triennial, Artists Consider the Role of Borders in a Global Society
Artsy November 11, 2020 Korean artist Minouk Lim’s installation, which homes in on the function and consequences of national borders, is arguably the strongest... Learn More -
Kim Tschang-yeul’s spirituality rings through waterdrops
The Korea Herald October 25, 2020 The paintings of water drops by Kim Tschang-yeul are familiar both home and abroad, but how the artist began to... Learn More -
Dansaekhwa artist Ha Chong-hyun presents 'Conjunction' in London
The Korea Times October 7, 2020 Renowned dansaekhwa (Korean monochrome painting) artist Ha Chong-hyun opened a solo exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery London, Tuesday. The artist,... Learn More
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Due to COVID-19 Tina Kim Gallery is currently closed.
August 5, 2020 While our physical space is currently closed, please visit us online for special programming. Our team is available remotely at... Learn More -
Geometric abstraction pioneer remembered 30 years after his death
The Korea Herald August 3, 2020 When South Korea was in political turmoil in the 1960s, after the Korean War and during the early days of... Learn More -
Mire Lee: Carriers
E-flux July 23, 2020 Mire Lee: Carriers In her sculpture and installation work, Mire Lee uses machinery that operates by simple principles, along with... Learn More -
10 Korean Artists Who Are Shaping Contemporary Art
Artsy July 8, 2020 Featuring Park Chan-Kyong, Minouk Lim, and Suki Seokyeong Kang Learn More
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[Museum of One’s Own] At age of 90, artist pioneers new phase of life
The Korea Herald July 6, 2020 A white porcelain moon jar, which resembles a full moon with its bluish hue, sits alone at the entrance hall... Learn More -
A Full View, at Last, of Modern Art in South Korea
The New York Times June 25, 2020 Many rich nations use art, music and movies to project an image to the world, but few take it as... Learn More -
Park Chan-kyong at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
ArtReview Asia April 1, 2020 By Andy St. Louis Andy St. Louis on the South Korean artist’s latest project that contemplates how society copes in... Learn More -
A Major Korean Painter Begins to Get His Due
Hyperallergic March 7, 2020 This is a statement that the Korean abstract artist, Lee Seung Jio (1941-1990), made in 1971, a few years after... Learn More
